A widely recognized paper by Colin Mayer (1988) has led to a profound revision of academic thinking about financing patterns of corporations in different countries. Using flow-of-funds data instead of balance sheet data, Mayer and others who followed his lead found that internal financing is the...

El análisis de la situación macroeconómica de los países requiere contar, sobre todo en momentos de alta volatilidad financiera, con información oportuna del comportamiento de los flujos financieros. Sin embargo, las estadísticas de flujos de capitales de balanza de pagos se publican con...

Driven by the increasingly important role of supply chains in global production, this paper studies empirical association between global credit-market shocks and firm behavior towards liquidity needs across countries and industries. Focusing on the adjustment of working-capital financing, we...

Focusing on the adjustment of working-capital financing, we find two pieces of supporting evidence from international firm-level panel data covering the period 2002:I-2012:IV. First, for industries where specific investment in the input supplier-customer relationship is large, firms are more...

This study is based on investors' viewpoint and adopts the accruals quality model [1] as proxy variable of earning quality. By applying the process capability concept in engineering application, we establish capability index of basis accrual quality and transform it into the investment risk...